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A key anti-Taliban tribal leader was assassinated Friday in a roadside bombing, the latest in a series of attacks against pro-government militias in the Afghan border area of northwestern Pakistan.
Moussa Khan had just been making his way back from a long day's work at a copper mine south of Kabul thinking about the son he lost a week earlier to a land mine blast. That day, Khan too stepped on a land mine.
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This Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: Massacre in Mindanao SI Analysis: At least 57 people were brutally killed as a result of a longstanding...
Advances in computerized modeling and prediction of group behavior, together with improvements in video game graphics, are making possible virtual worlds in which defense analysts can explore and predict results of possible military and policy actions, say computer science researchers.
KHAR, Pakistan (AP) - A key anti-Taliban tribal leader was assassinated Friday in a roadside bombing, the latest in a series of attacks against pro-government militias in the Afghan border area of northwestern Pakistan.Elsewhere, authorities found the bull
PUL-I-ALAM, Afghanistan (AP) - On what is more akin to a sunny winter's stroll, U.S. troops proudly tread on a newly asphalted road, past a refurbished mosque and a crowded market overflowing with produce. Children dance around the soldiers' boots and bear
The U.N. nuclear watchdog voted Friday to rebuke Iran for building a uranium enrichment plant in secret but Tehran rejected the move as "intimidation" which would poison its negotiations with world powers.
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With the support of Russia and China, the panel also demanded that Iran freeze operations at a once-secret uranium enrichment plant.
Militants have had a resurgence in Kunduz, a province that U.S. officials didn’t think they had to worry about.
Nonfiction Bicycle Diaries, by David Byrne (Viking; 303 pages; $25.95). The rocker opens our eyes to what he finds on a bike while touring cities around the world. Come Back, Como: Winning the Heart of a Reluctant Dog, by Steven Winn (Harper; 273 pages; $...
Let's see: Half a million to a million dollars per troop in Afghanistan. Isn't that the place where the Russians and other nations had to leave wit ...
India secured a crushing innings and 144-run victory over Sri Lanka with four sessions to spare in the second Test at Kanpur to take a 1-0 lead in the three-Test series, with one match left.
Happy Thanksgiving. How many of us mean that when we say it? How many of us truly are giving thanks for what we have, not wishing that we had something the other person does?
Educational courses offered annually by the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center have record enrollments for the 2009-2010 term. Introduction to Principles and Practice of Clinical Research covers the basics of how to conduct clinical research.
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